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In the kitchens, he gives instructions on new cake designs. In the restaurant, he samples new dishes he has dreamed up.

"All my skills were learned in Yorkshire, taught to me by my father," he says.

"It's because of his hard work that I'm where I am now."

The story of Rafay's father, Saleem, is the story of Mirpur.

In the 1960s, the original town, where Saleem lived - along with scores of villages around it - was submerged.

With the help of an English firm, Pakistan had built a huge hydro-electric dam on the Jhelum River close by.

It meant that more than 100,000 people had to leave their homes.

But the British government needed more workers at the time, and decided to give many of the Mirpur evictees permits so they could go to the UK to work in factories in the Midlands and the north of England.

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